Dead By Sunrise, the new band fronted by Chester Bennington, lead singer for multi-platinum, two-time Grammy-winning rock band Linkin Park, announce their first UK headline show at Londonâ€™s HMV Forum on 19th February 2010.

The songs on debut album â€˜Out of Ashesâ€™ began to take shape during some downtime Linkin Park had before the band began recording their double-platinum 2007 album â€˜Minutes to Midnightâ€™. “I came up with a few songs that felt and sounded really good, but I knew they weren’t right stylistically for Linkin Park,” Bennington says. “They were darker and moodier than anything I’d come up with for the band. So I decided to work on them on my own rather than turn them over and have them transformed into Linkin Park tracks.”

Bennington says that the music he wrote for Dead By Sunrise is darker, sexier, and more personal than anything he’s done before. “It’s got me all over it,” he says. “This is the music I hear in my head.” Indeed the creative freedom that Bennington felt making â€˜Out of Ashesâ€™ is evident on songs like â€˜Crawl Back Inâ€™, â€˜Let Downâ€™ and â€˜Walking in Circles.â€™ “There are no hip-hop influences at all on this record, which is obviously a big difference,” he says. “Also, the amount of vocal layering and use of harmony really showcase my voice in a new way. I was involved in the entire process of making the record, including the programming and the production, which was not only a great educational experience, it was very empowering. I’m really excited that the album is finally going to see the light of day!”

Bennington has been busy as of late, having spent the past 18 months touring with Linkin Park in support of â€˜Minutes To Midnightâ€™, which has sold more than six million copies worldwide since its release in spring of 2007. One of the most successful rock bands to emerge this decade, Linkin Park has sold more than 45 million albums worldwide. They’ve scored a remarkable string of chart-topping hit singles, a pair of Grammy wins, and earned an international fan base whose members number in the millions.